Military Memoirs of Marlborough's Campaigns, 1702-1712

2 plates & 6 maps & 6 x 9 & & Eyewitness accounts of Marlborough's campaigns & Rare insight into 18th-century military life & The battles of Blenheim, Ramillies, Malplaquet, and others These two key memoirs, edited by a leading British military historian, vividly capture the face of battle in the early 18th century. Irishman Robert Parker enlisted in 1683 and by 1708 had risen to Captain of the Grenadiers in the Royal Regiment of Foot, where he served until 1718. Mrode-Westerloo commanded a regiment in the Walloon army before seeing action in Italy and eventually rising to the rank of field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire. Historian David Chandler, best known for his books on the Napoleonic Wars, also specializes in Marlborough campaigns.